Martin Frizzell: The ITV boss under the spotlight in Schofield scandal

As a globe-trotting young television reporter, Martin Frizell encountered his fair share of danger.

He reported from Tiananmen Square in 1989 when thousands of democracy protesters were killed and journalists risked arrest; from conflicts in Iran, Iraq and Kosovo and, on his first day at GMTV, from Somalia, where he slept on a roof for safety while covering the civil war.

Now, however, the 64-year-old editor of This Morning is facing the kind of scrutiny he would once have cast on despotic regimes over his handling of Phillip Schofield’s affair.

Frizell, who is married to the former GMTV presenter Fiona Phillips, has been accused of presiding over a “toxic” workplace culture, with further allegations that Schofield, a friend and ally, was allowed to “do what